Write down your guess of Dr. Love’s age in years in the appropriate spot on the convenient piece of paper we’ve provided. Hang on to the paper, as you’ll need it again later.
Here’s a picture, in case that’s helpful.
Dr. Love
Course Details
Instructor: Thomas E. Love, Ph.D.
Email: Thomas dot Love at case dot edu
(best way to reach me, although you won’t use it much)
Office Hours are cancelled during Fall Break (2025-10-20 and 21) and Thanksgiving week (2025-11-22 through 2025-11-28), but otherwise run through Tuesday 2025-12-09.
Structure of the 431 Course
Exploratory Data Analysis, Visualization
Statistical Inference, Making Comparisons
Linear Regression and related Models
Course Philosophy (in one slide)
The course is about biostatistics, replicable research, using state-of-the-art tools (R, R Studio, Quarto), and thinking about how science is most effectively done.
It is more a course in how to do things (highly applied) rather than a theoretical/mathematical justification for why we do them. We focus here on practical work.
It’s mostly about getting you doing data science projects for biological, medical and health applications.
You might also want to keep track on your convenient piece of paper, so that when I tell you the ages later, you’ll be in a position to see how your group did.
In spare time between photos, please make the effort to learn something about each of the other people in your group beyond their name: perhaps what field they are in, or where they come from.
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Now, guess My Age again
You should have an initial guess of my age written down from the start of the session.
Now, make a second guess of my age based on what you know about me now, and write that down next to the initial guess.
So if you guessed 18 initially, but now think I’m 19, you should write 18/19. If you still think I’m 18, write 18/18. Make it easy for us to understand your guesses of my age on the convenient piece of paper. Don’t guess my age as a group - just write down your own guess.
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